Things I like about McDonalds

The BBQ Pit
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McDonalds has been getting a lot of negative comments and insults out here in SDMBland. In fact, right now, there’s a thread in MPSIMS that contains disparaging remarks about their policies and their food.

Sure, their food isn’t gourmet, but it’s cheap, filling, and the same wherever you go.

Here are some of the things that I like about McDonalds:

  • The fillet-o-fish sandwich

  • The Big Mac

  • Their fries (when served hot) are the best fast food fries I’ve ever had

  • Their fountain Cokes are consistantly good

  • I love their coffee

  • Their breakfast menu has several good-tasting items including:

    • The breakfast bagel sandwiches

    • The Mountain-berry muffins

    • The breakfast burrito

    • The bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit

Furthermore, in these parts, their low-wages are better than some of the other low-wage you’ll find…they’ll give people younger than 16 a chance to work if they want to…they’ll give you free ice if you ask…they donate that orange drink and cups for non-profit organizations…

I understand that some of you are snobs and are above eating at Micky-dees. Some of you may have also had a bad experience with them, but I think that they are OK…

Let the flaming begin!

Contestant #3

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Uh, I like some MickeyD’s stuff - their french fries are unbeatable, and they usually have very, very good coffee.

Everything else pretty much sucks, though.

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Super pretzels! With salt, please. And a diet coke. That would be breakfast.

-Melin

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I love McDonalds! I love the fries, the fish sandwich, and the cheeseburgers. On Wednesday mornings I work with one other girl and we have a tradition. We get McDonalds for breakfast and we sit and gossip (this is at work) while eating. I always get breakfast burritoes. I could live off them.

MaryAnn
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Maybe you should invite the McD bashers over from MPSIMS if you’re that hard up for flames, C#3.

-andros-

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-Doc Bronner

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Ya’know, I swore I’d never post in the Pit. This thread, however, calls to me.

Recently, I was leaving a get-together with my parents and my brothers’ families. They asked me where I was headed. I said that I hadn’t decided. I could go to McDonald’s because they had the newspapers there and I could catch up on some baseball scores. Or I could go to Wendy’s because they had food.

Now then, referring to C#3’s list:

-Fillet-o-fish sandwich: Perhaps the least fish-tasting thing in fast food today.

-The Big Mac: One would do just as well buying a bottle of Kraft 1000 Island Dressing and chugging it. Probably cheaper, too.

-French fries: Used to like them, until I realized they taste nothing like potatoes.

-Fountain Cokes: I’m a Pepsi man, myself.

-Coffee: I’m a coffee fanatic. I like it strong or weak (not too weak, though). Flavored or standard. Always black. The best thing I can say about McDonald’s coffee is that it’s better than no coffee at all. But not by much.

-Breakfast menu: Actually, I kind of like their breakfast burritos. Haven’t tried the bagel or muffins, so I can’t voice an opinion on these.

I’m not sure that this can be called a “good thing”.

sigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsigsig

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I’m part of the SDMB minority that really doesn’t care for McDonalds fries.

I do like their sausage bisquit with cheese, and their “chicken” nuggets.

You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.

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I am in love with the new Bagel breakfast sandwiches- we have one called the “steak and egg” sandwich. It is so damned good, I was shocked!!
I also love the Happy Meals, quarter pounders with cheese, and chicken parts.
McDonalds also does a lot of charity work around here. They have the Ronald McDonald house, which offers housing for parents who’s children are very ill and hospitalized, they offer free orange drink and cups and coolers for schools and clubs- fundraisers, etc.
I also worked there as a teen, and they treated me with respect, gave me good pay and good hours and I actually learned a lot more then how to flip burgers.
Just my opinion.

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i cant resist!
mcthatthingyihate with its peanut sized hamburgers, rotten cheese and tiny nothings for taste, flushed down with toilet products from the coca bloody cola company (which is a chapter of its own) is the worstEST(capitals and spelling error intended) place one could ever eat in.

bj0rn

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(totally ignoring the post above)

We dont get stuff up here on biscuits, we have english muffins instead, and the breakfast menu cant be beat for value or taste-personal fave: Sausage McMuffin (no Egg), Hash Browns, Tea.

I can buy breakfast for me and both kids for about $7! Thats great.

The fish sandwich cant compare to the Burger king “Big Fish Sandwich” its awesome.

And the Big Mac…well, I get mine with extra sauce, extra cheese, extra pickles, NO LETTUCE…its to die for (or of if you eat too many!)

They offer flexible hours for students, seniors, and they actively employ ‘high functioning’ mentally challenged adults. Show me another place where a ‘mildly retarded’ adult can work, get treated with respect, get pay raises, and set their own hours. Jobs like that are DAMN hard to find anywhere especially here.

They also employ ‘stay home moms’ who set the hours so they can be home when the kids get there…pretty decent.

I like the corporations stand on charity too…they do alot of good. And we had Frankie’s birthday party there too…the new ‘play place’ was finished this spring, and its awesome! The kids love it, and I can sit and read the paper and sip my tea. They dont make much extra money off the play area, but it is a nice thing to do for the kids.

I DONT like the kid aimed marketing though…I wont buy clothes or toys with a restaurant logo on them…its just wierd.

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When I go to McD’s I usually get either a Big Mac or a fish sandwich. Everything else I’m ambivalent about. One complaint, though…the fries. McD’s used to have the best fries until they switched to vegetable oil. Give me back my lard! Fat tastes good. If I wanted to eat healthy, I sure as hell wouldn’t eat at McDonald’s.

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The food is not the greatest, but it’s a good place for kids to learn a work ethic.

They screwed up their fries when they changed the oil they cook in, and quit using kosher salt.

Speaking of pommes frites, I found the best recipe for them awhile ago in the paper:

Peel potatoes and place in a bowl of water in the fridge for 8 hours. Then cut them up into fries and place in a new bowl of water in the fridge for 8 more hours. Drain and rinse. Place in peanut oil at 325 F until cooked through. Then place in peanut oil at 375 F to get the outsides just right. Drain and sprinkle with kosher salt (the kind of salt that has big granuals). Viola! You now have the world’s best french fries! Pretty close to what you used to get at McDonald’s. I’m told this is how they do it in Belgium, with out the mayo.

Therealbubba

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Love the fries and the affordability - I always go when they have 2 for $2 deal on Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese. Fills me up!

That said, the Big Mac is a lettuce sandwich and salad dressing sandwich with too much bread. Yuk!

Their chicken sandwich is edible, but Wendy’s has them beat by a mile… And I must admit that the Arch Deluxe was good for a few minutes with bacon, and McRib remains a guilty pleasure…

Yer pal,
Satan

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Well, back when I was a youth and a member of the Youth International Party, we used to call 'em “McDeath’s,” but that was the youth talking.

Has this country gone SO far down the toilet that, no matter WHERE you live, there isn’t a better alternative to this sort of feeding?

Okay, I live in New York City, I have an embarrassment of alternatives. But when I travel, no matter where I go, I see diners, I see mom-and-pop restaurants, I see local joints with local specialties, I see holes-in-the-wall with a fry cook standing at the grill, spatula ready. Prices in these places are comparable to McD’s, no? Are the chains really undercutting in the food arena, too?

Now, you go into a diner, it’s owned by the guy flipping the burgers or the babe behind the cash register. The food might be pedestrian, it might be mediocre…in a few cases, it might actively suck.

But in a helluva lot of cases, I have had GREAT little meals, MEMORABLE meals, in these joints…excellent hash-browns in Albuquerque, home-made sausages next to the eggs scrambled light in Milwaukee, a world-class cheeseburger in Berkeley, a fried oyster po’ boy in New Orleans, a creamy lobster roll in Bass Harbor, Maine.

Please give these people your business…or in thirty years, the ONLY option for lunch will be Big Mac or Filet-o-Fish.

Uke

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Ah Uke, yes indeedy! The best cinammon roll in the world is served at a little coffee shop in Idaho maybe an hour or so out of Yellowstone Park.

The thing about McDonald’s is that it is dependable mediocrity. No matter where you are, at least in this country, you know what it is you are going to find there. Out in the middle of nowhere in the midst of a cross-country drive this can be a good thing.

-Melin

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Amen. Frankfurt, Moscow, Tokyo, or New York, you know what you’re getting when you walk into McDonald’s.

Therealbubba

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Alright, this is turning into a MPSIMS thread.

[flame]
Con#3, you’re a fucking bonehead. Only UFO-hugging trollish pigfuckers with no tasebuds eat at any fast-food places, especially McCoronary’s. Why don’t you grow up and stop playing with your Barbie Happy Meals so you can learn to appreciate real food, you acephalic dipwad?
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Sorry, it’s a little weak. Best I can do before my third cup of coffee.

-andros-

“Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!” Exceptions? None!
-Doc Bronner

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I’ve never eaten at a McDonald’s–I’m not a food snob, I actually just don’t much like food at all. I can’t tell good coffee from warm mud. Do I have to turn in my U.S. citizenship if I don’t quick scarf down a Big Mac?

But from what I read here, the main trouble with McDonald’s is that it seems to be the Barnes & Noble or Rite-Aid of the food biz, putting Mom & Pop operations out of business. That seems to be the way the next century is heading–wasn’t there such a thing as a law on monopolies?

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macwhatnot doest serve food! its bloody repulsive…when the bloody thing came to iceland they even wanted to import the meat and bread…like american bread isnt good…well its got qualities, like you can leave it on the table for three weeks and it still feels like a sponge…and the meat…there is accually more MEAT in my little finger…i do not go there if im hungry, i do not go there if im thirsty, i do no go there at all…we have got KFC and subway, and lots of other fast “food” places which accually serve food…

bj0rn

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One good thing that no one has mentioned about Mickey Dee’s is their restrooms. Whenever I am on a long drive and need to stop, I always stop at Mcdonald’s. It’s the only place that I know will have a clean restroom.

Their desserts are also pretty good.

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